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Forums and bulletin boards are very good tools to build online communities. There are many of forum softwares available that you can install on your website but we will use bbPress.Are you asking why? bbPress used to be a standalone forum script from the creators of WordPress and has been around for years. Later it converted to a standard plugin for WordPress so now you can use it to add-on a forum to your existing blog in very easy way. All you need to do is to keep reading, and we will show you how to add a forum to WordPress.Continue Reading

WordPress Pages are used for more static content like: About, Contact Us etc and are accessible to site visitors from the site menu.On the other side, posts are used for dynamic and regular content updates on the website such as posts. Sometimes we need to convert content published as ‘Post’ into ‘Page’. It could the case when one of your posts become popular or complicated and you feel it should has its own WordPress page. It would also be easier for visitors as the page (post) would be accessible from the site menu.Continue Reading

If you want to promote your content on Facebook than Facebook Like box display is a must.In my previous post I wrote about how to use Facebook plugins to drive more traffic to your blog. This time let’s talk about Facebook Like box, which gives you bigger chances for more likes to your fanpage. This should turn into more referral traffic from Facebook to your WordPress blog. For greater conversion, instead of showing Facebook Like box in the blog sidebar, you can also display it in the form of pop-up box using one of two following methods.Continue Reading

Would you like to see more of your content shared on Facebook? How other bloggers make it easy for people to share your site or blog content on Facebook? Some people use the Facebook Like Button, others the Facebook Recommendations Box or any other Facebook plugin.But how do you know what will work best for you?Continue Reading

Plugins can extend your WordPress site to do almost anything.As of December 2012 there were more than 28,000 free plugins in the WordPress plugins repository that the community has to offer.But, do you really need all of them? If you are the person who tend to use many plugins, you should first learn why using too many of them will impact negatively on your website and readership.

One of the most important things you could do is securing your blog.Your blog can be big value for readers but if it is not secure, you could lose everything overnight.I will share some security tips that you should apply in your blog.

You probably spend hours on online activities such as checking email inbox, tweeting, and sharing stuff on social media. All those activities are what you have to do, and it might keep you away from your main tasks. So, how can you update your facebook or twitter from your WordPress blog every time you publish a new blog post? Many of plugins would do it for you, but here is the way you won’t need any plugins for.IFTTT is a great service to automate these tasks.Here is how to automate WordPress and Social Media with IFTTT.